Reading the Extreme in World Adventure Narratives: January 2014

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Chase the snow melt from the top of Mount Everest to Annapurna, the Alps, and the Andes. Row through the waters of the North American Arctic and trek across the Antarctic ice. This course surveys adventure writing of the alpine and polar regions. It looks closely at the relationship of such radical landscapes to human exploration, endurance and epiphany, while also investigating how and why this literature captures the reader’s imagination (as we’re nestled safely inside).

This blog serves a twofold purpose: as a collection of our critical responses to the works covered in this course and as an assemblage of our responses to each other's critiques.

Reading the Extreme in World Adventure Narratives

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Current Big Free Solo Rock Climber on Risk